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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1962Vol. XXXIII, No. 5

A NEW Upfield

p. 99 · Read in the full issue

Whodunnit

THUR UPFIELD and his in fallible aboriginal sleuth Det.ictor Napoleon Bonaparte move to the wild lands of North West ralia for their newest in outback i. The Will of the Tribe. hen a dead stranger is found at >ottom of a crater carved out by ling meteor at the beginning of :entury it was a firsj rate mystery e neighbouring country. ie man, it was felt, might well fallen from outer space. No :s lead in or out of the crater; no could move in that sparsely lated country without it being —not only on the real wireless on the even more efficient bush ess of the aboriginal tribes, i the face of it, an insoluble lem for Bony but one which he tually unravels while allowing his or to display his unique under ling of this strange country and eople.

Ie Will Of The Tribe. Pub

lby Heinemann. 17/6.)

Background in East and West Germany. (Great Pan.) CONQUEST GOES WEST, by Berkeley Gray. Another Norman Conquest epic. (Fontana.) AIRLINE DETECTIVE, by Donald Fish.

Fish is a real detective, now retired, whose job was to prevent international crime being carried on through inter national airlines. This is his story, with pix. Now made into a TV series. (Fon tana.) ARTISTS IN CRIME, by Ngaio Marsh. A Roderick Alleyn story that has the dis tinction of beginning in the old "Niagara" at Suva wharf. (Fontana.) THE GALTON CASE, by John Ross Mac donald, the American crime writer who finds favour in the British Isles. (Great Pan.)

The Saint On The Spanish Main,

by Leslie Charteris. (Great Pan.)

The Spinster's Secret, By Anthony

Gilbert. Suspense and a 74-year-old sleuth. (Fontana.)

For Other Tastes

THE OFFENDERS, by R. H. Ward. Young love, in the meadow. (Great Pan.) THE FIERY FURNACE, by Lawrence Wiliams. Novel about a pyromaniac. (Pan Giant.) STAND ON ME, by Frank Norman, the ex-convict author of "Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be". (Great Pan.) WHAT SORT OF GIRLS WERE THEY, by

Petrea Leslie. All about strippers and tan dancers, with drawings. (Great Pan.)

Shadow Of A Stranger, By Anne

Maybury. Love, etc. (Fontana.) MY FRIEND MONICA, by Jane Duncan. (Great Pan.) BOOMERANG JAIL, by Frank C. Robert son. American cowboy, in spite of the name. (Fontana.) (Our copies from William Collins (Over seas) Ltd. Fontanas and Great Pans, 4/-; Pan Giants, 5/6; Pan Majors, 7/6.)